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THE

Almaymy Diwanj

China Mail

No 27,302 HONG KONG,

THE PEACEMAKER

NEW YORK'S RECEPTION OF PREMIER

"ROADMAĶERS BOTH":

Ishbel Asked For Views On Love & Marriage

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FREEDOM OF CITY

SHED

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1929.

INTERPORT LAWN THE BAG SNATCHING

BOWLS

SHANGHAI LOSE

FINE DISPLAY BY THE POLICE. RECREATION CLUB.

WIN ON LAST HEAD

NUISANCE

have

POLICE BUSY

C.1.D. SEEKING FOR PURSE STEALERS & PICKPOCKETS

PROTECTION SOR LADIES

Although se passed since at foreign ladies were robbed of their handbags in the city by street natchers, the Criminal Investigation Department thieves.

A special squad is still on preventive duty and inquiries are being made in order to trace the culprits.

One man, known to be un associ-

was taken up for inquiries but re- teared. It is believed, that al- though he did not take an active part he was closely connected with one or both of the incidents which caused alarm in town.

[By Short Head."] Congratulations to the Police Recreation Club on lowering the Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, the British Premier, received a wel-colours of the Shanghai lawn bowl- come from Americans when he arrived at New York yesterday, oners yesterday afternoon. At the the liner "Berengaria," such as few statesmen have received from th head the scores were level- still vigorously seeking the another country within living memory. From the moment the liner-16)—and excitement was steamed into the harbour there was no doubt about the admiration Kreat in the last few minutes. Only and sincerity of the cheering thousands.

fair in comparison with Phillips all afternoon Nolan got a wood near | the, jack, but all the efforts of the

"We are both roadmakers,” déclared the Premier. referring to the work of President Hoover and himself on behalf of world peace. It was the children of the future they were building for the pre-itors to remove it failed and evenate of snatchers and pickpockets.

cious heirlooms of civilisation.

TRIUMPH OF PERSONALITY.

Miss Ishbarl શ harrage queries from 50 girl reporters who sought her views

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New York, Yesterday. and the Pres The "Berengaria" arrived at cleverly barriet the quarantine station at 7 o'clock, this morning and was greeted by the blowing of sirena ani zero- planes eireling overhead. The official welcoming party included? the Secretary of State. Mr. H, 1 Stimmon, aboard a tug, who board. ed the Berengaria" at followed by several small vessels

on love and marriage.-Reuter's Ashertean Service,

Mr. R. MacDonald

bearing delegations of various socities who came out to greet Afr. MacDonald.

Moved by Reception The sirens of ships in the har bour shrieked a anlute as Mr. MacDonald and party went aboard the tug and proceeded up the bay. Huge crowds on the waterfront and en route to the City Hall rousfagly cheered Mr. MacDonald and Miss Ishbel, who were both obviously touched by the warmth of their welcome. The papers, notably the democratic organs, are very eulogistic in their editorials.

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Freedom of New York. The scenes of, the MacDonald's arrival in New York were broad- cast, and listeners in Great Bri- tain heard very clearly the music of the bands, hum of the nero- planes, the cheers of the crowds. and the speeches from the City Hall when the freedom of the City was conferred on MacDonald..

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Avalanche of Journalists Mr. "MacDonald met. avalanche of journalists

as the "Berengaria" docked.

He stated: "The United States. and Great Britain are really ap pealing by example to all nations

to gather round the council board

of peace, so that while cherishing

Escoted by Marines

Rugby, Yesterday.

Mr. Kameng MacDonald arrived | New York this morning in the liner "Berengaria." From the mo-

ment that the "Berengaria" steam- |

welcome.

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TO-DAY'S INTERPORT

The players to meet to-day in the Interport lawn bowls raatch on the K.C.C. green will be as follows:

Shanghai. Hong Kong Phillips No. I. Laing Jexximun No. 2. Basa Dorrance No. 3. Grimmitt Malcolm Skip Ferguson.

Admission is $1 (Tickets at Clubs or gate); Indies free..

game.

very

It was a interesting

ed into quarantine, there was no Malcolm, great skip as he is, drove doubt about the heartiness of his futilely with both woods.

Sirens Trom scores of craft shrieked as the "Berengaria" reat end to a yame in under an escort of light

A feature was the fae display of cruisere. the "Memphis" and

Phillips at No. 1. Ably as he helped "Trenton." Hundreds of people. Jessiman to beat the Civil Ser- journeyed down the bay in yachts rice he exercised more initiative. and small stearaers to watch their resterday and at times was almost! arrival and these gathered uncanny, both on long and short ront the big vessel the air re-bends. sounded with cheers for the Bri-

Mair, who skipped the Police lish Premier.

team, is, however, entitled to pre- A# official welcoming party mier. mention-and a very honour- numbering 60 went out on boardahle mention at that. At a stagė a municipal tug. They included when it seemed as if Shanghai Colonel H. L. Stimson, Secretary would win rather easily Mair saved of State. Sir Esme Howard, Bri-time and again, not only keeping tish Ambassador, and Mr. J. P.the enemy score down but adding Morgan, the Famous financier. gradueliv to his own side's score. On landing. Mr. MacDonald, ac-He was well supported by West at companied by Miss Ishbel | No. 2. who was always reliable and MacDonald, and his party. pro-hud Kerley well beaten throughout ceeded in official cars to the City the game. There was not much to Hall, escorted by 200 State Troop-choose between Hargreaves and ers and a detachment of Marines Dorrance, but, if anything, the lat- with the famous Marine Band. ter had the better of the exchanges.

All along Broadway the British Premier and his daughter had an enthusiastic welcome from great

Miss 1. MacDonald

the historical past, and engaging crowds, who thronged the foot- in all the healthy rivalries of paths and filled the windows of

Confetti Showered

gealus, skill and work, they will the buildings, remember the wider unitica of humane civilisation."

Confetti was showered upon them. At the City Hall, New York'a civic reception took place. Mayor Walker said that the Wel- come given to Mr. MacDonald was as hearty as it was sincere and unusual. If MacDonald had come

Rond to Peace President Hoover, and himself as "roadmendera on the road. to peace" was one of the striking phrases In Mr. MacDonald's ad- dress to a vast audience at the City Hall. He declared that as a as an ordinary tourist he would, result of this "rondmaking," when on account of his great office, "our children and grand children have, received a great welcome, grow up to face the world, there will lie one rond stretching un- phasised by the fact that his visit impeded, to the horizon the road was on account of a mission All- to peace and International undered with the promise of great and standing" He emphasised that lasting peace to the world. he represented no party, but a united nation.

The Premier received a terrific ovation, and left for Washington at 11.80 am

but the presant welcome was em-

In reply MacDonald said that

he had come on a mission of peace. He had come to meet the President and not to advance materialistic aims, but that the “Love and Marriage two great nations, powerful in the Mr. MacDonald arrived at White past; still more powerful in the House, havier scored a very not future, might prove great nations

personal triumph both with which could look beyond this fact. crowds in the streets (Continued on Pene 6.)

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PRINCESS ROYAL

CONDITION SHOWING SIGN OF IMPROVEMENT

A. FAIR NIGHT

London, Yesterday.

The following bulletin was 1980- ed at Mar Lodge this afternoon: "The Princess Royal had several hours natural sleep yesterday afternoon, followed by a fair night, There is some other improvement." -British Wireless Service.

DURING THE LAST MONTH DR. SO, GREAT ACTIVITY HAS BEEN TAKING PLACE BEHIND THE SCENES

Plain clothes men are now on duty at shopping centres tó accord protection to ladles.

THE CHINA RAILWAY

DETERMINED TO BUY OUT RUSSIAN INTEREST

NEGOTIATIONS PENDING

Peking, Yesterday.

The

TO-DAY'S DOLLAR. closing rate of the dollar on demand, to-day was 1/10 3/16.

PRICE $3.00 Per Month.

NATIONAL FORCES GAIN WUCHOW AT ONE STROKE DANGER OF LOSING CITY NOW REMOVED

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DEFENCE ADEQUATE“

Two reports concerning the situation up the West River are conveyed in a

nervous

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IS THAT SOP

Thoughts Terse, Perverse and Worse

Newspaper headline: Made Him Full of Prison," Pre- sumably she gave him lockjaw,

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wool- market

To-day's Great Thought: Either Hong Kong or Shangha will win the interport lawn bowls match.

More than a drowning man will their victims's eyes are hot stuff. Royal Mail com-clutch at a straw-if it happens to munique issued this morning, the be in a tumbler of lime squash. purport of which is that Wachow the sent of Government, the prin- einal city and port of Kwangsi3 has been gained by the loyalist National forces in the South. Hereby removing danger-at one strike of a rising by extremist Kwangs-ites, in alliance with the

EVERY SATURDAY

To-day the first of Slag Hill's cartoons of the season appears in the China Mall." Further Sorts by the same artist will be published on each Saturday following. They will be worth keeping in series. So be cer- Lain of not missing your set.

Kai-shek. The gist of the Intelli-

Chou Lung-kuan, Chief of the Asia-Ironsides, against Marshal Chiang tie Bureau of the Wai Chino-fu, inter viewed en route to Mukden, where he is going to discuss the Chinese Eastern when the Sino-Russian negotiations be- Rallway controversy. Indicated that

"RED" BRIBES

Reactionaries Paid By Russza

A Nanking cable reports that Soviet Russia had remitted $5,000,000 to the reactionaries. Of this amount, $2,000,000 was sent to Shanghai and $1,000- 000 to a certain important Kwangs individuals, through the bank of a certain nation. Nothing was said of the balance.-Canton Newa Agency.

gan, China would seek to arrange and

buy out the Russian Interest in the railway. Rerlying, to a query an to whether the appointment of a new manager by Russia was an important matter, Mr. Chou stated that China had insisted or this matter and would await the opening of the negotiations. When the negotiations started, China would propose a method of taking back the railway, and if agreed, the appoint

ment of new officials of Russia would not arise.

Mr. Chou added that the delay in opening the negotiations did not ad- versely affect China, as the railway was in her hands and she was operat Ing It Reuter

THE KICK-OFF

THIS IS WILLIE PERKINS

OIR NEW INSIDE LEET

NEW PLAYERS HAVE BEEN

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"For immediate safe: small lady's cycle in good condition."--Spe- cially suited to a small lady in good condition.

Wyndham Street on Thursday put A motor-eyelist who rode down the wind up" a lot of peaceful- looking pedestrians.

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"All the King's horses and all the King's men were sent from Police! headquarters to arrest the progress of the Shanghai lawn bowlers.

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Says the London "Star": "Miss Talmadge was born in New York in April, 1920. She divorced her first husband in 1922.-American hustle!

The land bailiff'e men.took pas session of the Police bowling green last Sunday, but were in turn easily ejected from the inter-departmental cup contest.

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We seem to have gone back to the age of candles, judging by the large number of "wicks" on the various bowling greens of the Colony dur-

gence sent down yesterday from Wuchow, West River, is:-

City Entered The Kwangsi troops In Wuchow unlike their comrades furing the week. ther up the province, declared al- legiance to the National Govern- Describing an accident a Ilome ment. Cantonese troops are re- paper says: "The only light in, entered the City the room was a candle and 'this' ported to have

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The mosquitoes at Talpo are having a cracker-firing festival in honour of the proposed Health Week,

The pages and pages of reports of recent Council meetings auggata that this is not Hong Kong but the Island of Yap.

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"Wanted-Single handled garden- er. Must be accustomed to a little

used to a quart pot. glass." Most of them are. more

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The Police, even without the Murder Gang, slaughtered the Pub- lic Works Department's chances of winning the cup last Sunday.

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From a gramophone record critic- Ism: "What hamour there is la Jaboured. (Dark blue-9671.)”— This dark blue humour generally Is open to criticism.

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Queen's Prize at Kempton is two racing article: "The miles in length."A nice long prize, beside which the Hong Kong Jockey Club prizes are small indeed.

and to have arrested-the-repre-was burnt-out-on-the-dressink a very fine lot of fellows, law abid-

sentatives posted there by General table."-Is That So 7 Yu Tsok-pak. the Civil Governor, who was dismissed for sympathies with the Ironsides.

The rikisha pullors seem to have. No trouble a will and a way of their own at the Star Ferry (Hong Kong side) of a morning when the European traffic sergeant is not there.

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occurred and the city is quiet.

On the other hand, a later re- nort aald that the Cantonese troops had not arrived at Wuchow on their march up the West River, Says the London "Evening but were expected very shortly. Newa": "Altogether 519 dogs were' The Kwangsi-ite, General Lui entered, of which exactly half came Woon-yim, has declared against from other tracks. Each half of the his cretwhile superior. Yu Tsok-split dog should be entitled to a pak (the Civil Governor) and, for good start. the National Government; and it is his troops that have taken over

Says the "Daily Sketch": "A

control of Wachów from the sub-lady may prefer alcoholic drinks to

ordinates of Yu Tsok-pak

tea and pretty fashionable clothes without being a cock-tail-smoking half nude flapper."-The Week's

Fairy story from Kowloon Magistracy: The rikisha coolies.are. ing and good natured."When you "ante" up a lot of "cumshaw."

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From an advert.: "Buy things like hair dreams, razors, lotions at the

Sounds like some- thing exquisite in shingles but, alas, only stands for prosaic hair creams:

"Somaeually good photo-

graphs illustrate his book. One set shows young Merrett, first za s small and particularly pretty little boy." ("The Saturday Review").— A young boy is likely to be small and, if small, almost certain to be

little:

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"The Shoe-B lives on fish, chiefly From a popular science article:

the strange armour-plated Bichir. For a nest the shoe-bill is content with a slight hollow in the bare

Chang Fat-kuei's Revolt

Shanghai, Yesterday. Reuter understands that the Great. Thought. National Government remains un- perturbed by Chang Fat-kudi's re- 27 10s. Armstrong Siddeley, volt. It appears that the latter is all weather, in excellent condi slowly proceeding to Kwangsi. tion throughout. Great sacrifice." ground. It is to be regarded as a where he hopes to join up with Second hand car advertisement-heron with a short neck."-From the description we should regard it With a mere £27.106. at stake the very owner might, almost have spared of himself the pain and sacrifice of are parting.

certain malcontents.

However, there little fighting,

has been and reports serious Goverment reverses groundless..

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WHILST SUPPORTERS HAVE BEEN PRACTISING THEIR

VOCAL CHORDS

•COME AND ARI; A WEE PERCH ME' PORIS

(HAS ALSO BEEN RUMOURED Har OME SCOTTISH SPECTATORS HAVE BEEN BECOMING VERY FRIENDLY WITH THE MEN WHO TAKE THE MONEY AT THE GATE

THE CLUB

USUAL, HAVE BEEN COUNTING THEIR TEAM TO SEE

IF THEY HAVE ELEVEN

League Soccer starts to-day

Hong Kong

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A shipping "news" Item":-The "Carnarvon Castle", sighted the "King Cadwallon" (built in Kow- loon) ive miles east of the Bashee River with a whale standing by. The intelligent whale was, of course, spouting water on to the ship's white-hot deck

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A par. In a Home paper about an author says that "Then he won a large sum at roulette which enabled him to travel abroad and study literature."—Most winners of large sums of money at roulette spend them in studying how to win large Gums at roulette.

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"American advt.: "Send your short stories and book manuscripts for examination; market manuscripts through us, thereby saving time, energy and morale." "Morale", is exceptionally good, as every professor of a batch of rejections will agren,

they allow no bad words to slip in.

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At the foot of a picture in a newspaper: "The picture showed us the signing of the famous Lutheran Treaty Mussolini's the Fopes from a 59 year old greatest achievement-which freed

Mussolini smiling excitedly as he voluntary Imprisonment watched Cardinal Gasparri put his signature tremulously."-A Luth- eran Treaty would be likely to make any Cardinal tremulous.

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Interesting to read: "The Aus- trallans have evolved a machine called the combination-Harvester, which is a reaper. thresher and winnower on wheels..

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ears containing the grain conveyed automatically to the in- fernal workings of the machine." That is how motorists in Hong Kong sometimes describe the more secret parts of their engines.

Par in paper to hand by the mail: the American amateurs, after ex- "Wonders of Wireless-In 1820 perimenting successfully on 200

Says a Police magazine: "Import-miles of the continent made a self ant matters, such as whether police this wave across the Atlantic... organised attempt to transmit on men should whistle on duty, verIt was left to amateurs to discover, bally, of course, not mechanical-in 1824, the value of 40 and 20 y..."There seems no reason. why the Hong Kong Police should coni was born and after that wire- metre waves."-Later Senator Mar- not whistle verbally" provided less became loss wonderful!

□ ******* D Extract from pp. 278 and 279, the British drink question:

Thus the "Saturday Review" or "The Angel of Terror," by Edgar "Spirits have been made prohibl- Wallace: Then the dark face tive in price by the demands of the showed over the parapet and again State, but nothing has been done the revolver was presented. She to encourage a taste for light and started for a second into his bone-authentic wines, though the prefer- valent, eyes, and then something eace given to antipodean fluids has hit her violently and she stagger-gone some way towards uniting the od back and dropped over the edgeEmpire in common nausea."-80. of the shelf, down, straight down that is all they think of the cherish- Into the sea below."-Killed by ed Australian and South Africam kindness.

wines!